Introduction to the novel
"Zhu Chongba's Promotion: From Cowherd Boy to Ming Dynasty CEO" takes the chaotic times of the late Yuan Dynasty as the background, tears away the solemn cloak of the "founding emperor" in the history books, and reveals Zhu Yuanzhang's "mortal life" hidden under the dragon robe.
Sixteen-year-old Zhu Chongba was the most miserable cowherd boy in rural Haozhou - his bran cakes were robbed by landlords, and scalpers dared to kick him. When he was so hungry that he had to think about "how to let the cows eat less wheat seedlings and keep more food for himself" when he was gnawing the soil. But his destiny was to be punished by death: in a famine year, his parents and elder brothers starved to death one after another. He fled the famine with a few copper coins in his pocket. From a refugee chewing tree bark to a young monk secretly hiding dry food in Huangjue Temple, he was forced to go up Liangshan to join the Red Turban Army.
There is no myth of a "born dragon" here: he would scold his mother because his comrades robbed him of his nest, and he would secretly burn paper for his dead relatives after winning a battle; he was favored by Guo Zixing because of his "ability to carry out work and settle accounts", but he blushed because he married a girl Ma and shouted "I am not worthy"; when he fought with Chen Youliang, he broke into a cold sweat, but turned around and patted his chest and said to his brothers, "What are you afraid of? If we fight with our lives, we will have food."
From Loess Slope in Haozhou to the Jinluan Temple in Yingtian, he led a group of poor brothers to carve out the country, and expressed the most practical truth in the roughest words: "When we become emperor, we want all the children in the world to have hot food. No one will be like my parents, who will not even have a place to bury their bones after death." This is a history of grassroots counterattacks that laughed and cried - it turns out that the starting point of the founding emperor was no different from that of every ordinary person who wanted to live a good life.
